Compliance Standards
Compliance standards are formal rules, regulations, and guidelines that organizations must follow to meet legal, regulatory, or industry-specific requirements. They ensure data security, privacy, ethical practices, and operational integrity, often involving frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2. Developers implement these standards through secure coding, access controls, audit trails, and data handling procedures.
Developers should learn compliance standards when building applications that handle sensitive data (e.g., healthcare, finance, or personal information) to avoid legal penalties, data breaches, and reputational damage. This is critical in regulated industries, cloud deployments, and global software to ensure adherence to laws like GDPR for privacy or PCI DSS for payment security.